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The Changing Pattern of Achaemenid Persian Royal Coinage

In: Explaining Monetary and Financial Innovation

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  • Christopher Tuplin

    (University of Liverpool)

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This chapter deals with coinage minted during the Achaemenid Persian imperial period that may be regarded as royal: (a) the gold darics and silver sigloi first created in the late sixth century BC as a successor to the royal coinage of Lydia and (b) other issues from the late fifth century onwards which draw on the iconography of the daric/siglos coinage or have other royal associations and which began to appear at a time when the production of darics and sigloi had diminished. Coined money was a cultural feature, even peculiarity, of the empire’s Aegean and East Mediterranean edges, and the various innovations involved in the story of royal coinage (a specifically west Anatolian phenomenon) are most readily understood in political or ideological terms rather than economic ones.

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  • Christopher Tuplin, 2014. "The Changing Pattern of Achaemenid Persian Royal Coinage," Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, in: Peter Bernholz & Roland Vaubel (ed.), Explaining Monetary and Financial Innovation, edition 127, pages 127-168, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:fimchp:978-3-319-06109-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06109-2_6
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